From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Build failure for Emacs master Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2016 09:25:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83oaatxu72.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56CCD91E.6070507@alice.it> <83egc2ixji.fsf@gnu.org> <56CD798D.7060102@alice.it> <56CD8408.1000701@alice.it> <83wppuggb4.fsf@gnu.org> <56CE2CA7.5050906@alice.it> <83io1cg2pt.fsf@gnu.org> <56DA0327.2030009@alice.it> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457162751 14198 80.91.229.3 (5 Mar 2016 07:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2016 07:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Angelo Graziosi Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 05 08:25:46 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ac6av-0004Oy-Ju for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 08:25:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45115 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ac6au-0008TA-UK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34708) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ac6ab-0008Qa-IA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:25:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ac6aY-0001CS-B0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50750) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ac6aY-0001CO-7Y; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:25:22 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4545 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ac6aX-0002pB-5t; Sat, 05 Mar 2016 02:25:21 -0500 In-reply-to: <56DA0327.2030009@alice.it> (message from Angelo Graziosi on Fri, 4 Mar 2016 22:50:31 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200937 Archived-At: > From: Angelo Graziosi > Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016 22:50:31 +0100 > > $ cat ./src/emacs/lisp/loaddefs.el > [...] > (autoload 'xref-collect-matches "xref" "\ > Collect matches for REGEXP inside FILES in DIR. > FILES is a string with glob patterns separated by spaces. > IGNORES is a list of glob patterns. > > \(fn REGEXP FILES DIR IGNORES)" nil nil) > > ;;;*** > > > while for the others > > $ cat ./src/emacs/lisp/.../loaddefs.el > [...] > ;;;*** > > > (provide 'loaddefs) > ;; Local Variables: > ;; version-control: never > ;; no-byte-compile: t > ;; no-update-autoloads: t > ;; coding: utf-8 > ;; End: > ;;; loaddefs.el ends here > > > Maybe just retrying builds.. Yes, this looks like the same problem. The challenge is to catch the instance when such a faulty loaddefs.el is produced, and see what happens there. Ideas for how to do that are welcome. > In any cases this kind of failures are rather recent. I have built > master on MSYS2 for months without any failure and since, say, first > decade of February they occur.. I've seen this first in last November. Not sure if it's the same problem, but the symptoms are very similar. Are all of your builds full bootstraps in a fresh directory using a freshly cloned repository?